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[Skyler45]

Ok, so I'm very unhealthy. I'm almost 17, 5' 11'', almost 300 lbs, but am very strong. I know I can still make a change for the better and that's why I'm here. I need help making good diet restrictions, exercise recommendations, and vitamin/mineral suggestions. I am always tired, and my lower back hurts. I don't eat too much junk food, and just stopped drinking soda. I work next to a specialty pharmacy that just opened and a farmers market. Anything will be helpful. Thanks

[Flaming Spaz]

Hello skyler, well im glad to help you out here, my advice as follows;



1. Eat a variety of nutrient-rich foods. You need more than 40 different nutrients for good health, and no single food supplies them all. Your daily food selection should include bread and other whole-grain products; fruits; vegetables; dairy products; and meat, poultry, fish and other protein foods. How much you should eat depends on your calorie needs. Use the Food Guide Pyramid and the Nutrition Facts panel on food labels as handy references.
2. Enjoy plenty of whole grains, fruits and vegetables. Surveys show most Americans don't eat enough of these foods. Do you eat 6-11 servings from the bread, rice, cereal and pasta group, 3 of which should be whole grains? Do you eat 2-4 servings of fruit and 3-5 servings of vegetables? If you don't enjoy some of these at first, give them another chance. Look through cookbooks for tasty ways to prepare unfamiliar foods.
3. Maintain a healthy weight. The weight that's right for you depends on many factors including your sex, height, age and heredity. Excess body fat increases your chances for high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, some types of cancer and other illnesses. But being too thin can increase your risk for osteoporosis, menstrual irregularities and other health problems. If you're constantly losing and regaining weight, a registered dietitian can help you develop sensible eating habits for successful weight management. Regular exercise is also important to maintaining a healthy weight.
4. Eat moderate portions. If you keep portion sizes reasonable, it's easier to eat the foods you want and stay healthy. Did you know the recommended serving of cooked meat is 3 ounces, similar in size to a deck of playing cards? A medium piece of fruit is 1 serving and a cup of pasta equals 2 servings. A pint of ice cream contains 4 servings. Refer to the Food Guide Pyramid for information on recommended serving sizes.
5. Eat regular meals. Skipping meals can lead to out-of-control hunger, often resulting in overeating. When you're very hungry, it's also tempting to forget about good nutrition. Snacking between meals can help curb hunger, but don't eat so much that your snack becomes an entire meal.
6. Reduce, don't eliminate certain foods. Most people eat for pleasure as well as nutrition. If your favorite foods are high in fat, salt or sugar, the key is moderating how much of these foods you eat and how often you eat them.
Identify major sources of these ingredients in your diet and make changes, if necessary. Adults who eat high-fat meats or whole-milk dairy products at every meal are probably eating too much fat. Use the Nutrition Facts panel on the food label to help balance your choices.
Choosing skim or low-fat dairy products and lean cuts of meat such as flank steak and beef round can reduce fat intake significantly.
If you love fried chicken, however, you don't have to give it up. Just eat it less often. When dining out, share it with a friend, ask for a take-home bag or a smaller portion.
7. Balance your food choices over time. Not every food has to be "perfect." When eating a food high in fat, salt or sugar, select other foods that are low in these ingredients. If you miss out on any food group one day, make up for it the next. Your food choices over several days should fit together into a healthy pattern.
8. Know your diet pitfalls. To improve your eating habits, you first have to know what's wrong with them. Write down everything you eat for three days. Then check your list according to the rest of these tips. Do you add a lot of butter, creamy sauces or salad dressings? Rather than eliminating these foods, just cut back your portions. Are you getting enough fruits and vegetables? If not, you may be missing out on vital nutrients.
9. Make changes gradually. Just as there are no "superfoods" or easy answers to a healthy diet, don't expect to totally revamp your eating habits overnight. Changing too much, too fast can get in the way of success. Begin to remedy excesses or deficiencies with modest changes that can add up to positive, lifelong eating habits. For instance, if you don't like the taste of skim milk, try low-fat. Eventually you may find you like skim, too.
10. Remember, foods are not good or bad. Select foods based on your total eating patterns, not whether any individual food is "good" or "bad." Don't feel guilty if you love foods such as apple pie, potato chips, candy bars or ice cream. Eat them in moderation, and choose other foods to provide the balance and variety that are vital to good health.



If you can fin time to get a drink after work or you make the efforts not to miss you favourite television programs, then why do you not plan for your daily physical fitness activities? Try some of these tips to make exercising an easier priority:

Find a friend or buddy to exercise with of a similar fitness level than you.
Moving or dancing is great exercise so find the time to move to some music.
Play with your kids, go to the park. You can teach them the values of daily fitness and exercise, get them active and get your dose of exercise in as well.
Find a nice surrounding, a park, nature to exercise.
Have comfortable sport clothing, it will make exercising more comfortable.
Variety is key to ward of boredom, change your exercise routines the part of the body you exercise

And as for the vitamins and minerals i think you should know what you lack so that i can tell you what vitamins and minerals to take.

[sheray]

Hello skyler, well im glad to help you out here, my advice as follows;



1. Eat a variety of nutrient-rich foods. You need more than 40 different nutrients for good health, and no single food supplies them all. Your daily food selection should include bread and other whole-grain products; fruits; vegetables; dairy products; and meat, poultry, fish and other protein foods. How much you should eat depends on your calorie needs. Use the Food Guide Pyramid and the Nutrition Facts panel on food labels as handy references.
2. Enjoy plenty of whole grains, fruits and vegetables. Surveys show most Americans don't eat enough of these foods. Do you eat 6-11 servings from the bread, rice, cereal and pasta group, 3 of which should be whole grains? Do you eat 2-4 servings of fruit and 3-5 servings of vegetables? If you don't enjoy some of these at first, give them another chance. Look through cookbooks for tasty ways to prepare unfamiliar foods.
3. Maintain a healthy weight. The weight that's right for you depends on many factors including your sex, height, age and heredity. Excess body fat increases your chances for high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, some types of cancer and other illnesses. But being too thin can increase your risk for osteoporosis, menstrual irregularities and other health problems. If you're constantly losing and regaining weight, a registered dietitian can help you develop sensible eating habits for successful weight management. Regular exercise is also important to maintaining a healthy weight.
4. Eat moderate portions. If you keep portion sizes reasonable, it's easier to eat the foods you want and stay healthy. Did you know the recommended serving of cooked meat is 3 ounces, similar in size to a deck of playing cards? A medium piece of fruit is 1 serving and a cup of pasta equals 2 servings. A pint of ice cream contains 4 servings. Refer to the Food Guide Pyramid for information on recommended serving sizes.
5. Eat regular meals. Skipping meals can lead to out-of-control hunger, often resulting in overeating. When you're very hungry, it's also tempting to forget about good nutrition. Snacking between meals can help curb hunger, but don't eat so much that your snack becomes an entire meal.
6. Reduce, don't eliminate certain foods. Most people eat for pleasure as well as nutrition. If your favorite foods are high in fat, salt or sugar, the key is moderating how much of these foods you eat and how often you eat them.
Identify major sources of these ingredients in your diet and make changes, if necessary. Adults who eat high-fat meats or whole-milk dairy products at every meal are probably eating too much fat. Use the Nutrition Facts panel on the food label to help balance your choices.
Choosing skim or low-fat dairy products and lean cuts of meat such as flank steak and beef round can reduce fat intake significantly.
If you love fried chicken, however, you don't have to give it up. Just eat it less often. When dining out, share it with a friend, ask for a take-home bag or a smaller portion.
7. Balance your food choices over time. Not every food has to be "perfect." When eating a food high in fat, salt or sugar, select other foods that are low in these ingredients. If you miss out on any food group one day, make up for it the next. Your food choices over several days should fit together into a healthy pattern.
8. Know your diet pitfalls. To improve your eating habits, you first have to know what's wrong with them. Write down everything you eat for three days. Then check your list according to the rest of these tips. Do you add a lot of butter, creamy sauces or salad dressings? Rather than eliminating these foods, just cut back your portions. Are you getting enough fruits and vegetables? If not, you may be missing out on vital nutrients.
9. Make changes gradually. Just as there are no "superfoods" or easy answers to a healthy diet, don't expect to totally revamp your eating habits overnight. Changing too much, too fast can get in the way of success. Begin to remedy excesses or deficiencies with modest changes that can add up to positive, lifelong eating habits. For instance, if you don't like the taste of skim milk, try low-fat. Eventually you may find you like skim, too.
10. Remember, foods are not good or bad. Select foods based on your total eating patterns, not whether any individual food is "good" or "bad." Don't feel guilty if you love foods such as apple pie, potato chips, candy bars or ice cream. Eat them in moderation, and choose other foods to provide the balance and variety that are vital to good health.



If you can fin time to get a drink after work or you make the efforts not to miss you favourite television programs, then why do you not plan for your daily physical fitness activities? Try some of these tips to make exercising an easier priority:

Find a friend or buddy to exercise with of a similar fitness level than you.
Moving or dancing is great exercise so find the time to move to some music.
Play with your kids, go to the park. You can teach them the values of daily fitness and exercise, get them active and get your dose of exercise in as well.
Find a nice surrounding, a park, nature to exercise.
Have comfortable sport clothing, it will make exercising more comfortable.
Variety is key to ward of boredom, change your exercise routines the part of the body you exercise

And as for the vitamins and minerals i think you should know what you lack so that i can tell you what vitamins and minerals to take.

this post is very informative, thank you for sharing. I am still loosing my weight from pregnancy.

[gonzales]

In my opinion, in particular food and food nutrition for maintaining health and treating diseases. Nutrients are essential for the proper functioning of the mental, physical, metabolic, chemical and hormonal activities.Sumptous food is available in fruits and vegetables. The fruits have the ability to provide all that your body needs.

[jaxter]

Balance diet and a regular exercise session will help you out from this problem. As you need to have nutritious food, no need to take in large quantity just a regular diet you have but have variety of food in respect to the all types of nutrition. You need to consult to a dietitian, they will help you more that any one else.
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[Dyson Miles]

One of the health benefits of aloe vera juices is that they help to detoxify the body and cleanse the colon. As parents, you know how children like to eat all kinds of junk food and those are bad for health. Drinking this juice daily helps the body to flush out harmful toxins that comes from junk food. It also has carrisyn that stimulate white blood cell production.

Other health benefits of aloe vera juice are thanks to the methionine, molybdenum, amino acids and serine threonine contained inside. These nutrients help to increase children's metabolism. A better metabolism means more energy is used and less fat is stored. This also helps to keep the fats away from the liver and arteries. A clean colon is also important for your kids' growth and health. Reason being a bad colon system will re-absorb back the toxins it is supposed to dispose, causing your kids to feel weak and easily exposed to sickness.

[spongebob101]

For your problem on back pain... Try the Yoga... Enroll in the Yoga and tell them about your have a back pain problem... Cause there is a lot of different kind of Yoga for your fitness need... Eat fruits, vegetables, meat, drink plenty of water, fruit juices and milk...

[berryk]

Hello skyler, well im glad to help you out here, my advice as follows;

1. Eat a variety of nutrient-rich foods. You need more than 40 different nutrients for good health, and no single food supplies them all. Your daily food selection should include bread and other whole-grain products; fruits; vegetables; dairy products; and meat, poultry, fish and other protein foods. How much you should eat depends on your calorie needs. Use the Food Guide Pyramid and the Nutrition Facts panel on food labels as handy references.
2. Enjoy plenty of whole grains, fruits and vegetables. Surveys show most Americans don't eat enough of these foods. Do you eat 6-11 servings from the bread, rice, cereal and pasta group, 3 of which should be whole grains? Do you eat 2-4 servings of fruit and 3-5 servings of vegetables? If you don't enjoy some of these at first, give them another chance. Look through cookbooks for tasty ways to prepare unfamiliar foods.
3. Maintain a healthy weight. The weight that's right for you depends on many factors including your sex, height, age and heredity. Excess body fat increases your chances for high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, some types of cancer and other illnesses. But being too thin can increase your risk for osteoporosis, menstrual irregularities and other health problems. If you're constantly losing and regaining weight, a registered dietitian can help you develop sensible eating habits for successful weight management. Regular exercise is also important to maintaining a healthy weight.
4. Eat moderate portions. If you keep portion sizes reasonable, it's easier to eat the foods you want and stay healthy. Did you know the recommended serving of cooked meat is 3 ounces, similar in size to a deck of playing cards? A medium piece of fruit is 1 serving and a cup of pasta equals 2 servings. A pint of ice cream contains 4 servings. Refer to the Food Guide Pyramid for information on recommended serving sizes.
5. Eat regular meals. Skipping meals can lead to out-of-control hunger, often resulting in overeating. When you're very hungry, it's also tempting to forget about good nutrition. Snacking between meals can help curb hunger, but don't eat so much that your snack becomes an entire meal.
6. Reduce, don't eliminate certain foods. Most people eat for pleasure as well as nutrition. If your favorite foods are high in fat, salt or sugar, the key is moderating how much of these foods you eat and how often you eat them.
Identify major sources of these ingredients in your diet and make changes, if necessary. Adults who eat high-fat meats or whole-milk dairy products at every meal are probably eating too much fat. Use the Nutrition Facts panel on the food label to help balance your choices.
Choosing skim or low-fat dairy products and lean cuts of meat such as flank steak and beef round can reduce fat intake significantly.
If you love fried chicken, however, you don't have to give it up. Just eat it less often. When dining out, share it with a friend, ask for a take-home bag or a smaller portion.
7. Balance your food choices over time. Not every food has to be "perfect." When eating a food high in fat, salt or sugar, select other foods that are low in these ingredients. If you miss out on any food group one day, make up for it the next. Your food choices over several days should fit together into a healthy pattern.
8. Know your diet pitfalls. To improve your eating habits, you first have to know what's wrong with them. Write down everything you eat for three days. Then check your list according to the rest of these tips. Do you add a lot of butter, creamy sauces or salad dressings? Rather than eliminating these foods, just cut back your portions. Are you getting enough fruits and vegetables? If not, you may be missing out on vital nutrients.
9. Make changes gradually. Just as there are no "superfoods" or easy answers to a healthy diet, don't expect to totally revamp your eating habits overnight. Changing too much, too fast can get in the way of success. Begin to remedy excesses or deficiencies with modest changes that can add up to positive, lifelong eating habits. For instance, if you don't like the taste of skim milk, try low-fat. Eventually you may find you like skim, too.
10. Remember, foods are not good or bad. Select foods based on your total eating patterns, not whether any individual food is "good" or "bad." Don't feel guilty if you love foods such as apple pie, potato chips, candy bars or ice cream. Eat them in moderation, and choose other foods to provide the balance and variety that are vital to good health.



If you can fin time to get a drink after work or you make the efforts not to miss you favourite television programs, then why do you not plan for your daily physical fitness activities? Try some of these tips to make exercising an easier priority:

Find a friend or buddy to exercise with of a similar fitness level than you.
Moving or dancing is great exercise so find the time to move to some music.
Play with your kids, go to the park. You can teach them the values of daily fitness and exercise, get them active and get your dose of exercise in as well.
Find a nice surrounding, a park, nature to exercise.
Have comfortable sport clothing, it will make exercising more comfortable.
Variety is key to ward of boredom, change your exercise routines the part of the body you exercise

And as for the vitamins and minerals i think you should know what you lack so that i can tell you what vitamins and minerals to take.

Very nice post thanks for sharing .

[Ammycin]

Using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs such as naprox, aspirin, and ibuprofen) cause ulcers. If prevention of stomach ulcers in patients using NSAIDs use Misoprostol medication. By lowering the amount of stomach acid, Misoprostol protects your stomach lining and helps decrease ulcer. Eat healthy!

[Oscar Peter]

There’s no better way to make new friends than to offer them food. If you can get everyone invited to throw in a few quid, (or bribe them to wash up), it’s cheap and fun and you get the satisfaction of knowing that you and your pals eat well at least once in the term.

Don’t be daunted by cooking for lots of people, start small, and cooking for four is as easy as cooking for one. Cooking a vegetarian meal is always a safe bet. It’s cheaper, and the likelihood is that at least one person present will be veggie - so you avoid the risk of panicking over a cheese omelette while your lovingly prepared steak and kidney pudding meets its maker. Better still, ask all of your guests beforehand, as food allergies are becoming increasingly common, and you may need to give your menu a little more attention.

Choose a dish that you like to eat and therefore can enjoy cooking and eating. If you have a “signature dish”, then cook that, but try tweaking it, or spicing it up a bit e.g. if your good at basic lasagne, then perhaps you could try with different ingredients, goat’s cheese with pesto and spinach or chicken and broccoli.

Shopping for ingredients is an integral part of meal preparation and by shopping around you can get better ingredients at cheaper prices. Take some time over shopping. Supermarket wars mean that there are often good two for one or half price offers on. Most supermarkets also reduce stock that is close to its sell by date - look out for these items and incorporate them in your menu plan, be flexible and you’ll save yourself cash.

-- Sat Feb 26, 2011 4:35 am --

you can know mreo here. I get the infor from studenthealth.co.uk. lol

[Collie]

Hello skyler, well im glad to help you out here, my advice as follows;



1. Eat a variety of nutrient-rich foods. You need more than 40 different nutrients for good health, and no single food supplies them all. Your daily food selection should include bread and other whole-grain products; fruits; vegetables; dairy products; and meat, poultry, fish and other protein foods. How much you should eat depends on your calorie needs. Use the Food Guide Pyramid and the Nutrition Facts panel on food labels as handy references.
2. Enjoy plenty of whole grains, fruits and vegetables. Surveys show most Americans don't eat enough of these foods. Do you eat 6-11 servings from the bread, rice, cereal and pasta group, 3 of which should be whole grains? Do you eat 2-4 servings of fruit and 3-5 servings of vegetables? If you don't enjoy some of these at first, give them another chance. Look through cookbooks for tasty ways to prepare unfamiliar foods.
3. Maintain a healthy weight. The weight that's right for you depends on many factors including your sex, height, age and heredity. Excess body fat increases your chances for high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, some types of cancer and other illnesses. But being too thin can increase your risk for osteoporosis, menstrual irregularities and other health problems. If you're constantly losing and regaining weight, a registered dietitian can help you develop sensible eating habits for successful weight management. Regular exercise is also important to maintaining a healthy weight.
4. Eat moderate portions. If you keep portion sizes reasonable, it's easier to eat the foods you want and stay healthy. Did you know the recommended serving of cooked meat is 3 ounces, similar in size to a deck of playing cards? A medium piece of fruit is 1 serving and a cup of pasta equals 2 servings. A pint of ice cream contains 4 servings. Refer to the Food Guide Pyramid for information on recommended serving sizes.
5. Eat regular meals. Skipping meals can lead to out-of-control hunger, often resulting in overeating. When you're very hungry, it's also tempting to forget about good nutrition. Snacking between meals can help curb hunger, but don't eat so much that your snack becomes an entire meal.
6. Reduce, don't eliminate certain foods. Most people eat for pleasure as well as nutrition. If your favorite foods are high in fat, salt or sugar, the key is moderating how much of these foods you eat and how often you eat them.
Identify major sources of these ingredients in your diet and make changes, if necessary. Adults who eat high-fat meats or whole-milk dairy products at every meal are probably eating too much fat. Use the Nutrition Facts panel on the food label to help balance your choices.
Choosing skim or low-fat dairy products and lean cuts of meat such as flank steak and beef round can reduce fat intake significantly.
If you love fried chicken, however, you don't have to give it up. Just eat it less often. When dining out, share it with a friend, ask for a take-home bag or a smaller portion.
7. Balance your food choices over time. Not every food has to be "perfect." When eating a food high in fat, salt or sugar, select other foods that are low in these ingredients. If you miss out on any food group one day, make up for it the next. Your food choices over several days should fit together into a healthy pattern.
8. Know your diet pitfalls. To improve your eating habits, you first have to know what's wrong with them. Write down everything you eat for three days. Then check your list according to the rest of these tips. Do you add a lot of butter, creamy sauces or salad dressings? Rather than eliminating these foods, just cut back your portions. Are you getting enough fruits and vegetables? If not, you may be missing out on vital nutrients.
9. Make changes gradually. Just as there are no "superfoods" or easy answers to a healthy diet, don't expect to totally revamp your eating habits overnight. Changing too much, too fast can get in the way of success. Begin to remedy excesses or deficiencies with modest changes that can add up to positive, lifelong eating habits. For instance, if you don't like the taste of skim milk, try low-fat. Eventually you may find you like skim, too.
10. Remember, foods are not good or bad. Select foods based on your total eating patterns, not whether any individual food is "good" or "bad." Don't feel guilty if you love foods such as apple pie, potato chips, candy bars or ice cream. Eat them in moderation, and choose other foods to provide the balance and variety that are vital to good health.



If you can fin time to get a drink after work or you make the efforts not to miss you favourite television programs, then why do you not plan for your daily physical fitness activities? Try some of these tips to make exercising an easier priority:

Find a friend or buddy to exercise with of a similar fitness level than you.
Moving or dancing is great exercise so find the time to move to some music.
Play with your kids, go to the park. You can teach them the values of daily fitness and exercise, get them active and get your dose of exercise in as well.
Find a nice surrounding, a park, nature to exercise.
Have comfortable sport clothing, it will make exercising more comfortable.
Variety is key to ward of boredom, change your exercise routines the part of the body you exercise

And as for the vitamins and minerals i think you should know what you lack so that i can tell you what vitamins and minerals to take.

Hello buddy,
I think that your advice is quite better for him and he surely make a good deal with his health.... Any one keeping the health's goal in his mind will definitely take great care of his diet and health.....

[kaycee]

Hello skyler, well im glad to help you out here, my advice as follows;

Your post is useful thanks for sharing.

[Collie]

Hey buddy,
Flamz post is much informative one and have some sort of good knowledge inside it.... I think that you should act on his advice and make a good deal with your body and health... Just try your best and have nice time spend buddy..... Best of luck.....

[kaycee]

Hello friends!
Very bulk discussion is going here, but I like those information.

[fajarini11]

If you feel hungry do not just take some food and eat it, you can control by drink some mineral water
also you can consume some herbal for your healthy or diet

[Stanley]

No doubt all the tips are best for the health and according to the
nature of the body. Thanks buddy for sharing wonderful information
on the topic of the health.

[Cherlie]

Hi Skyler45,
Nice to know you make a "U" turn and decided to lose weight.
You have already given many useful tips and I hope you have started losing weight by following these tips. Few from my end:
Break your meals in 6 small meals as it will be easy for you to digest them,
As you already avoid soda so drink 8/10 glass of water daily,
Do use watermelon and grapefruits. They are also great source of water,
Start some sport or do start any physical activity.
Make small goals. After hitting your goals do make higher goals. It will motivate you.
Keep updating us with your achievements.

[Stanley]

Thanks Cherlie
For wonderful information on health topic.

[Flemming88]

Thanks cherle for some informative advices and i am 100% satisfied with your advice and it really satisfied me and specially fresh juices are very informative one. They are the source of water and also fulfill your body requirement. Thanks for this post man.

[Clauder]

Hi Skyler45,
Some tips might be helpful for you to reduce weight.
Break your meal in 5/6 small meals,
Do take raw food more in your diet meals,
Drink 3 cups of green tea daily,
Prefer fresh juices over soda, diet soda and beverages,
Do start some sport or exercise to lose weight quickly.

[Chris Tremlet]

The tips are nice and thanks for sharing this and also it is an awesome and keep sharing some more information on health data and thanks buddy...